Concepts of mental life across cultures: Secondary analysis

Principal componewnts analysis using full datasets, Pearson correlations, and oblique transformations

In this notebook we conduct principal components analyses (PCAs) on the datasets for our studies of concepts of mental life, in which each participants judged the various mental capacities of a particular target entity. We analyze datasets for adults and children from each of our five field sites: the US, Ghana, Thailand, China, and Vanuatu.

This notebook contains secondary analyses, parallel to the results presented in the main text, in which use PCA instead of EFA. _

Adults

Samples

  country   n
       US 127
    Ghana 150
 Thailand 150
    China 136
  Vanuatu 148
    Total 711

Scale use

Factor retention: parallel analysis

Principal components analysis

Factor loadings

Congruence

Bootstrapped congruence

Children

Samples

  country   n
       US 117
    Ghana 150
 Thailand 152
    China 131
  Vanuatu 143
    Total 693

Scale use

Factor retention: parallel analysis

[1] "nfact"

Principal components analysis

Principal components analysis

Factor loadings

Congruence

See All samples, below.

Bootstrapped congruence

All samples

Congruence

Jaccard Similarity

Developmental comparisons

Variance accounted for